AT HOME AND ABROAD THE BATTLE OF THE B-52S

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August 3, 2000
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July 17, 1956
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OAKLAND (Cal.) TRIBUNE ((p~LL i 7 1W A pproved 11 elease 2000/08/24 GIA-RDP70-pgf1fBp0 S. 215,600 AT HOME AND ABROAD- The Battle of the B-52s CPYRGHT By Raymond Law,efce rai-l Baca-.. ??'t3 -- p NAVAL Alit S'1tGL',iVUi"lri ears before a Senate commit- for such expansion as there has p mt : .,;~lcar93nrr 3 Pranse -+ - th e been f d tee III t1eWatys, more vi report may be made public. In, naval air poweiis a tremendous MORE SOVIET PLANES observations evalv...w., ...>/ r_ _ - _ tVA e'1 Y.cf J .,..... ... helpful in uating this highly world, can a aver nuclear' it . .,..---- .r tee, cc to almnet E well, says that la0 year {:11 V11 Ordinary citizens, which in- ity disperses an enemy s ail -Y r , Russia in the same period elude most columnists and com- strength over a huge area. They lanes of all mentators, lack the official in- are floating bases ,that pack as produced 13,800 P formation and the background big a wallop as land bases and types; Of this number 60 per et ore not icittinc, r3urka as are cent were military, according to _ _ .. - . .. y for most politicians. Our best military experts be- p 11 1 roduced by 3,200 comba POLITICS INVOLVED lieve that in the next war the ianes. . ' . That is the trouble in Con- first knockout blows will be di- We know on the i press where the Democrats have rected at land bases, not big Alieri`"D6II'es director o c aref CIA sought to deprecate the ade- centers of population, because that boYisie under ng afWidgmental transitio cluacy of this Nation's air power only in this way can an aggres- goi and succeeded in adding nearly sor nullify the possibility of ir1 ""mtlfP Yy equipment 'an probably?tactics, So these fig $800,000,000 to the Administra- massive retaliation, tion's budget. The idea was to This could mean that our ures m6k-bfi~nge radically a: the production of B52s principal air power would be soon as a year from now and i, t s ep up is dubious whether we Toad u~ by that amount of money. carrier-based, which, if not for This was a political move, other reasons, the Navy is an on B52s which soon could b( promoted and supported by the indispensable element of our as obsoldWas the recent 1347s Air Force but not with the con- military establishment. This is the kind of situatio sent of Secretary of Defense To ignore these considerations in which one :wishes the Presi Wilson or with the ?support of is neither accurate nor justifi- dent would speak out. He en `'the President. able. joys the Nation's confidence i The fact that an election is General Twining has repeat- his military judgment an `coming up next November and edly insisted that, the Russians political integrity and the com that the American people want are ahead of the country in ,plexities are so great that prob the best possible military de- number of ,aircra,, ip produc- .ably no other American ca> Approved For Release 2000/08/24: CIA-RDP70-00058R000100130080-8